As far as the racers were concerned, Sugar Rush 2 had everything. New tracks, new looks, new starts, new powers, new cars… alright, they might not have liked that last one.
"What do you mean we have to redesign?" Gloyd asked.
"I mean we didn't bring cars with us, so we need to make some." Taffyta said, walking with the other racers toward the Kart Maker factory.
"But I have a car. The Kernel is literally parked outside the game." Gloyd said.
"Actually, it got towed." Adorabreezle pointed out.
"You guys just told me this now?" Gloyd asked, so shocked it put stress on his files' abilities to convey said emotion.
"Wow. Guys, we're here." Vanellope said.
Standing before them was the factory. It was a tall building with huge cotton candy cone stacks that spewed rainbow colored smoke. The forest seemed to creep away from the place, every tree leaning away. So, as it was the only logical thing to do with the imposing, environment hating, creepy as all get out building, the racers went inside. It was pitch black with a single red button in the middle. Vanellope was the first one to walk up to the button, pressing it gently with her foot. When this didn't work, Vanellope started tapping it harder until she ended up jumping up and down on the button and banging on it. This seemed to work.
A circle of lights appeared, eleven in total. Each one was a square with a picture of a car on it, one for each racer. Vanellope walked over to her car, an asymmetrical little thing with the name "The Ralph" floating above it. She touched the square, causing it to disappear and open the wall behind it. As the racers crowded around, they saw a bright room with many large contraptions against the wall.
"Welcome to the bakery! You have one minute to win it!" An electronic voice said, "Put the ingredients in the bowl and throw away the trash!"
The racers sprinted to the first console, attempting to balance the scales and push the right ingredients into the mixing bowl. It took a few moments, but they somehow managed to get most of the flour, milk, and eggs into the bowl with only a few old boots thrown in. The bowl was mixed into a batter and moved into a giant oven.
"Pump up the heat and hold the perfect temperature!" The voice instructed.
Vanellope teleported onto the pump and started hopping on it. Once she was joined by Rancis and Snowanna, this worked well enough to heat the batter correctly. The batter had been molded into a car's shape, but was still plain yellow. It moved along the conveyor belt to an assortment of vials on the wall.
"Decorate the car!" The voice said.
Swizzle was there first this time, and was already shooting down four wheels for Vanellope's car. When the rest got over to him, there were five seconds on the clock.
"Okay, new plan." Gloyd said as he picked up Candlehead.
"What are you doing?" Candlehead asked as she was pushed into the launcher.
"Fire!" Gloyd commanded. In the last second, Candlehead was hurled into the vials of frosting, knocking them all down onto the car. She and the car were pulled along by the conveyor belt as a loud buzz noise erupted through the building.
"Time's up! Congratulations, you did it! Here's your car!" The voice said as a garage door opened up at the end of the conveyor belt. A wave of toppings and sugar spewed out, along with Vanellope's car, absolutely perfect, and Candlehead, face down in the driver's seat.
"I think you put out my candle." Candlehead said as she climbed out of the car. The other sat in stunned silence.
"How did you do that?" Minty asked.
"What can I say? I'm a natural." Gloyd said. Vanellope was already starting her car and hugging the steering wheel.
"This is awesome!" She declared. Rancis walked over to her with a bag of red icing. Vanellope grabbed it and leapt out of her seat to scrawl "Ralph" on the side of her car.
"Why is it called the Ralph anyway?" Taffyta asked as she climbed onto the back of Vanellope's car.
"We may never know." Vanellope said. The others had piled on next to Taffytam and Vanellope cruised back to the first room. There were a whole ten more cars to build.
The other cars were assembled the same way, right down to firing Candlehead into the frosting. By the fifth time, they had enough gotten good enough that they really didn't need to, but even Candlehead admitted it was pretty funny.
